ENGINEERS hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at random,
and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any
previously observed elephant.

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ENGINEERS are not so concerned with hunting elephants
as with creating a seamless interface between the elephants and their environment.

ECONOMISTS don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are
paid enough, they will hunt themselves.

STATISTICIANS hunt the first animal they see N times and call it an elephant.

CONSULTANTS don't hunt elephants, and many have never hunted anything at
all, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those people who do.

OPERATIONS RESEARCH CONSULTANTS can also measure the correlation of hat
size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant-hunting strategies, if someone
else will only identify the elephants.

POLITICIANS don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you
catch with the people who voted for them.

LAWYERS don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around arguing
about who owns the droppings.

SOFTWARE LAWYERS will claim that they own an entire herd based on the look
and feel of one dropping.

VICE PRESIDENTS OF ENGINEERING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT try hard to hunt
elephants, but their staffs are designed to prevent it. When the vice president
does get to hunt elephants, the staff will try to ensure that all possible elephants
are completely prehunted before the vice president sees them. If the vice president
does see a non-pre-hunted elephant, (in other words, a live one) the staff will
(1) compliment the vice president's keen eyesight and (2) enlarge itself to
prevent any recurrence.

SENIOR MANAGERS set broad elephant-hunting policy based on the assumption
that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices.

QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTORS ignore the elephants and look for mistakes
the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep.

SALES PEOPLE don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants
they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens.

SOFTWARE SALES PEOPLE ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice
for an elephant.

HARDWARE SALES PEOPLE catch rabbits, paint them gray, and sell them as desktop
elephants.

JAVA PROGRAMERS don't hunt elephants at all, they will import the java.animal.large.wrinkled.Grey class and extend it to their own class called MyElephant. Then whenever the need arises to hunt an elephant the will instantiate one,show everyone, then send it back to the (dung)heap.Java Programmers contributed by Matthew Smith